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Webster 1828 Edition


Listlessness

LIST'LESSNESS

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Noun.
Inattention; heedlessness; indifference to what is passing and may be interesting.

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listlessness

listlessness

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Noun

listlessness (countable and uncountable, plural listlessnesses)

  1. The state of being listless; apathetic indifference; lethargy.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
      But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.

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